When I was writing yesterday’s post on coming undone I could not help but think of the other similar stories in the New Testament of women…
In this 12-minute screencast I share a model for seeing and understanding all that takes place in the world, both seen and unseen, and how…
Over the course of my lifetime some much needed teaching on intimacy with God has been produced. One of the reasons so much has been…
My spiritual life use to look a lot like Woodstock. You know, lots of peace, love, and good music. Eventually I figured out that I…
When we read about the healing of the lame man in Acts 3 we tend to compare Peter and John’s journey to the Temple for…
One of my favorite definitions of worship comes from the famous Hasidic Jewish Rabbi, philosopher, and mystic, Abraham Joshua Heschel. He defined it this way:…
Jesus was the finest teacher to ever walk the earth. He was profound. He was paradoxical. He spoke with authority. But one thing that often…
A friend of mine, Gary Ray, posted a handy piece on humility on his blog and it got me thinking about the subject. I have…
In the New Testament we are told that on at least two occasions Jesus fed a multitude of hungry people with only a tiny bit…
By the time we get to Matthew 5:20 we are not that far into Jesus’ sermon. Yet, it seems he has already turned our world…
Prolepsis is a literary term that refers to flash forwards, foreshadowing, and/or anticipation in a story. In terms of our walk with God, prolepsis is a future…
For nearly two thousand years the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew has captivated the hearts, minds, and imaginations of Christ followers everywhere. It has been affectionately…
Imagine what it might have been like to be on the side of the mountain that day, listening to Jesus as he declared the truth…
Have you ever felt like you were out of sync with God? Ecclesiastes 3:1 states, “There is a time for everything, and a season for…
I’ve been reading a little bit on anger lately (things like this and this). And it has me thinking about how the issue is addressed…